Today is the birthday of Frits Damrow. Fritz was Principal Trumpet of the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam for the best part of twenty years. He is now embarking on a new career teaching and solo playing. Since 2009 Frits Damrow has been Professor of trumpet at the University of the Arts in Zürich, Switzerland.
Frits Damrow Plays ‘Danse De Ballerina’ from Petrushka
Happy birthday Frits!
I must admit that I play on a Yamaha Chicago C trumpet, too! So, after ‘plugging’ Yamaha so relentlessly, in this post, let’s have a luck around the Yamaha Trumpet workshop…
…and a bonus tour round the Yamaha factory with Canadian Trumpeter Jens Lindemann…